0.000301 in scientific notation?

don't understand

2 Answers
May 4, 2018

=3.01e-4

Explanation:

We can start out by writing the number in standard form, which means that it shouldn't exceed 10. So in this case, we are writing it as 3.01 \cdot10^(-4) instead of 30.1*10^(-3).

The only difference standard form is to scientific form, is that we are writing the 10^(-4) to be e-4 instead.

May 4, 2018

3.01*10^-4

Explanation:

The first thing you should to know is that scientific numbers are between 1 and 9

so move the dot 4 digits to the right

00003.01

zeros on the left of the number you can remove them

cancel(0000)3.01

the multiply the number by 10 to the power of (how many digits you've moved the dot)

so

3.01*10^-4

negative 4 because you moved the dot to the right if you move it to the left the power will be positive like

32000 = 32000.0 = 3.2 * 10^4